Ali Ebrahimi et al.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 374(1786), 20190077-20190077 (2019-10-08)
Oligosaccharides produced from the extracellular hydrolysis of biological materials can act as common goods that promote cooperative growth in microbial populations, whereby cell-cell aggregation increases both the per capita availability of resources and the per-cell growth rate. However, aggregation can